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Volume XCIII, Number 10
trojan
University of Southern California Wednesday, July 27, 1983
Food Service strike ends after 3 weeks
THE OLYMPIC EXPRESS - A light rail commuter train from West Los Angeles to USC is one of the ideas that has been proposed to help alleviate traffic problems during the 1984 Olympics. The idea is supported by L.A. Supervisor and USC alum Kenneth Hahn, far left. The train would run along Exposition Blvd. and up Sepulveda Blvd. on track currently used for once-a-day freight service.
By Alexandra Dubin
Staff Writer
A 22-day strike by university food service workers ended " Friday as administration and union officials signed a new three year contract.
Members of Local 11 (Hotel Employeess and Restaurant Employees Union) voied to accept the settlement on July 22, which includes pay increases, a minimum call guarantee and new benefit and pension plans.
Steven Beck, director of negotiations for Local 11, said the package, as a whole, is an improvement and employees were glad to get back to work.
The workers, he said, were recalled by their union and returned to work Monday. Beck also said all temporary fill-in personnel, hired by university administration during the strike, were let go.
Helen Anderson, also of Local 11, commenting on the new contract said, “we are satisfied because our members are satisfied... there was not one dissenting vote.”
The wage increase in the 1983 agreement is an average of five percent for this year, a 3.6 percent average for 1984 and a 4.4 percent average increase for 1985.
The minimum call guarantee, highly sought after by strikers, will assure food service employees, with three years seniority, four to six hours of work per day, depending on classification. Hotel workers will retain their eight hour per day guarantee.
Guy Hubbard, executive director, auxiliary services and other auxiliary services personnel were unavailable for comment on the settlement.
Four new members named to board of trustees
Four new members have been elected to the Board of Trustees for the university: Hugh H. Helm, Allen E. Puckett, Gin D. Wong and Jane Hoffman; these four bring a variety of talents and experience to the group now providing leadership for this, the largest private university in California
Hugh Helm
Helm, 42, is a managing partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Booth, Mitchel, Strange and Smith. He will become an alumni trustee by virtue of his election as president-elect of the USC General Alumni Association.
A two-time graduate of the university, Helm earned a bachelor’s degree in business management in 1962 and a J.D. from the USC Law Center in 1969.
Upon graduation from the university, he became an associate with the Los Angeles law firm of Lillick, McHose and Charles, where he had been serving as a clerk.
Helm joined Booth, Mitchel, Strange and Smith as an associate in 1977, becoming a partner in 1980 and managing partner in 1982.
Active in USC affairs, Helm is a life-time member of the university’s General Alumni Association and a member of its board of governors. He also served as alumni representative of the Undergraduate Admissions Committee.
In addition, Helm is a life member of USC Associates, the university’s premier support group, and a
member of the Legion Lex, the support group for the law center.
Allen Puckett
Puckett, 63, is chairman and chief executive officer of Hughes Aircraft Company.
Puckett, who joined Hughes in 1949, has held various posts at the company, including head, aerodynamics department, guided missile laboratory; director of advanced planning, research and development laboratories; vice president and group executive, aerospace group. He became president in 1977. He was named chairman of the board in 1978.
Prior to joining Hughes, Puckett worked at Caltech, Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Co., U.S. Army Ordnance Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Puckett has derved on numerous committees and has received several awards. He has served as chairman of the board, Western Region for the United Way (Los Angeles), as chairman of the board of couse-lors at USC’s school of engineering, and as a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
He currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of the American Mutual Fund and Lone Star Industries, Inc. He is president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Puckett received his bachelor’s degree in 1939 and his master’s de-greein 1941, both from Harvard
University. He earned his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1949.
Gin Wong
Wong is the founder and president of Gin Wong Associates, an architectural firm that specializes in the total design of hotels, corporate eadquarters, major office buildings and retail and educational facilities, as well as the master planning of large-scale commercial properties.
Aside from numerous building credits, the Wong firm is supervising the $700 million dollar redevelopment of the Los Angees International Airport.
Wong, who worked as vice president in charge of design at Pereira and Luckman and, later, as president William L. Pereira Associates, was responsible for the design of several buildings on the USC campus.
Wong was born in Canton, China in 1922. He was educated in Los Angeles. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air COrps and was on active duty in the South Pacific from 1942 to 1945 as a navigator with the 20th Air Force Squadron. Upon his return, he enrolled at USC, graduating from the School of Architecture in 1950.
Active in USC affairs, Wong is also a member of USC Associates and a past president of the School of Architecture’s Architectural Guild. He has served on the board of governors of the USC General Alumni Association and was a mem-
ber of the board of councilors of the Andrus Center.
Jane Hoffman Popovich
Popovich received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the university in 1965 and has continued her involvement at USC in several capacities.
She is a member of USC Cancer Associates, a board member of Women of Troy, and a member of the USC Associates’ San Gabriel Valley Steering Committee.
A member of Town and Gown Auxiliary since 1974, she has served as the group’s president, parliamentarian, benefit chairman, scholarship chairman, treasurer and a new member chairman,
Popovich is currently a member of the board of trustees at Westridge School. She chairs the board’s capital funds committee and is a member of its finance and development committees.
Active in community affairs, she has been vice president of the board of directors of Kidspace — a children’s participatory museum — since 1980.
Last Summer Trojan
This is the last issue of the Summer Trojan. The Daily Trojan will begin publishing with the Orientation issue. August 30.

Volume XCIII, Number 10
trojan
University of Southern California Wednesday, July 27, 1983
Food Service strike ends after 3 weeks
THE OLYMPIC EXPRESS - A light rail commuter train from West Los Angeles to USC is one of the ideas that has been proposed to help alleviate traffic problems during the 1984 Olympics. The idea is supported by L.A. Supervisor and USC alum Kenneth Hahn, far left. The train would run along Exposition Blvd. and up Sepulveda Blvd. on track currently used for once-a-day freight service.
By Alexandra Dubin
Staff Writer
A 22-day strike by university food service workers ended " Friday as administration and union officials signed a new three year contract.
Members of Local 11 (Hotel Employeess and Restaurant Employees Union) voied to accept the settlement on July 22, which includes pay increases, a minimum call guarantee and new benefit and pension plans.
Steven Beck, director of negotiations for Local 11, said the package, as a whole, is an improvement and employees were glad to get back to work.
The workers, he said, were recalled by their union and returned to work Monday. Beck also said all temporary fill-in personnel, hired by university administration during the strike, were let go.
Helen Anderson, also of Local 11, commenting on the new contract said, “we are satisfied because our members are satisfied... there was not one dissenting vote.”
The wage increase in the 1983 agreement is an average of five percent for this year, a 3.6 percent average for 1984 and a 4.4 percent average increase for 1985.
The minimum call guarantee, highly sought after by strikers, will assure food service employees, with three years seniority, four to six hours of work per day, depending on classification. Hotel workers will retain their eight hour per day guarantee.
Guy Hubbard, executive director, auxiliary services and other auxiliary services personnel were unavailable for comment on the settlement.
Four new members named to board of trustees
Four new members have been elected to the Board of Trustees for the university: Hugh H. Helm, Allen E. Puckett, Gin D. Wong and Jane Hoffman; these four bring a variety of talents and experience to the group now providing leadership for this, the largest private university in California
Hugh Helm
Helm, 42, is a managing partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Booth, Mitchel, Strange and Smith. He will become an alumni trustee by virtue of his election as president-elect of the USC General Alumni Association.
A two-time graduate of the university, Helm earned a bachelor’s degree in business management in 1962 and a J.D. from the USC Law Center in 1969.
Upon graduation from the university, he became an associate with the Los Angeles law firm of Lillick, McHose and Charles, where he had been serving as a clerk.
Helm joined Booth, Mitchel, Strange and Smith as an associate in 1977, becoming a partner in 1980 and managing partner in 1982.
Active in USC affairs, Helm is a life-time member of the university’s General Alumni Association and a member of its board of governors. He also served as alumni representative of the Undergraduate Admissions Committee.
In addition, Helm is a life member of USC Associates, the university’s premier support group, and a
member of the Legion Lex, the support group for the law center.
Allen Puckett
Puckett, 63, is chairman and chief executive officer of Hughes Aircraft Company.
Puckett, who joined Hughes in 1949, has held various posts at the company, including head, aerodynamics department, guided missile laboratory; director of advanced planning, research and development laboratories; vice president and group executive, aerospace group. He became president in 1977. He was named chairman of the board in 1978.
Prior to joining Hughes, Puckett worked at Caltech, Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Co., U.S. Army Ordnance Aberdeen Proving Ground and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Puckett has derved on numerous committees and has received several awards. He has served as chairman of the board, Western Region for the United Way (Los Angeles), as chairman of the board of couse-lors at USC’s school of engineering, and as a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
He currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of the American Mutual Fund and Lone Star Industries, Inc. He is president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Puckett received his bachelor’s degree in 1939 and his master’s de-greein 1941, both from Harvard
University. He earned his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1949.
Gin Wong
Wong is the founder and president of Gin Wong Associates, an architectural firm that specializes in the total design of hotels, corporate eadquarters, major office buildings and retail and educational facilities, as well as the master planning of large-scale commercial properties.
Aside from numerous building credits, the Wong firm is supervising the $700 million dollar redevelopment of the Los Angees International Airport.
Wong, who worked as vice president in charge of design at Pereira and Luckman and, later, as president William L. Pereira Associates, was responsible for the design of several buildings on the USC campus.
Wong was born in Canton, China in 1922. He was educated in Los Angeles. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air COrps and was on active duty in the South Pacific from 1942 to 1945 as a navigator with the 20th Air Force Squadron. Upon his return, he enrolled at USC, graduating from the School of Architecture in 1950.
Active in USC affairs, Wong is also a member of USC Associates and a past president of the School of Architecture’s Architectural Guild. He has served on the board of governors of the USC General Alumni Association and was a mem-
ber of the board of councilors of the Andrus Center.
Jane Hoffman Popovich
Popovich received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the university in 1965 and has continued her involvement at USC in several capacities.
She is a member of USC Cancer Associates, a board member of Women of Troy, and a member of the USC Associates’ San Gabriel Valley Steering Committee.
A member of Town and Gown Auxiliary since 1974, she has served as the group’s president, parliamentarian, benefit chairman, scholarship chairman, treasurer and a new member chairman,
Popovich is currently a member of the board of trustees at Westridge School. She chairs the board’s capital funds committee and is a member of its finance and development committees.
Active in community affairs, she has been vice president of the board of directors of Kidspace — a children’s participatory museum — since 1980.
Last Summer Trojan
This is the last issue of the Summer Trojan. The Daily Trojan will begin publishing with the Orientation issue. August 30.